The sound of as many Olympiads, twelve hours before, would have conveyed an idea of shorter duration to my uncle Toby ’s mind.——The succession of his ideas was now rapid,—he broiled with impatience to put his design in execution;——and so, without consulting farther with any soul living,—which, by the bye, I think is right, when you are predetermined to take no one soul’s advice,——he privately ordered Trim, his man, to pack up a bundle of lint and dressings, and hire a chariot-and-four to be at the door exactly by twelve o’clock that day, when he knew my father would be upon ’Change.——So leaving a bank-note upon the table for the surgeon’s care of him, and a letter of tender thanks for his brother’s—he packed up his maps, his books of fortification, his instruments, &c. and by the 162 help of a crutch on one side, and Trim on the other,——my uncle Toby embarked for Shandy-Hall.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Another objection was, that the canoe would soon be missed; the absent persons would, at once, be suspected of having taken it; and we should be pursued by some of the fast sailing bay craft out of St. Michael’s.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

When the social factor is absent, learning becomes a carrying over of some presented material into a purely individual consciousness, and there is no inherent reason why it should give a more socialized direction to mental and emotional disposition.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

"But almost immediately after deciding upon this, we saw that there were fearful difficulties in the carrying out of such a simple plan.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It is upon this conception of the artificial and harmful character of organized social life as it now exists 2 that he rested the notion that nature not merely furnishes prime forces which initiate growth but also its plan and goal.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In the way of movement and human life, there was the hasty rattle of a cab or coach, its driver protected by a waterproof cap over his head and shoulders; the forlorn figure of an old man, who seemed to have crept out of some subterranean sewer, and was stooping along the kennel, and poking the wet rubbish with a stick, in quest of rusty nails; a merchant or two, at the door of the post-office, together with an editor and a miscellaneous politician, awaiting a dilatory mail; a few visages of retired sea-captains at the window of an insurance office, looking out vacantly at the vacant street, blaspheming at the weather, and fretting at the dearth as well of public news as local gossip.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jos's carriage (the temporary one, not the chariot under construction) arrived one day and carried off old Sedley and his daughter—to return no more.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In due time they assume another, but a different method, by providing for the service they had before cut off or straitened, and which they can then very easily prove to be necessary.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It is useless to answer certain objections of some fine writers regarding the rather brown skins and faces with somewhat wide nostrils.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Moreover, we have also the example of Christ on our side.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

In those cases where the effect is due to the cutting off of supplies at the roots, and where the yellowing is a secondary symptom, the disease is more general in character, and recovery is often [ 185 ] impossible, because the loss of water cannot be compensated, and the results may be further complicated by the gradual penetration of poisonous matter into the cells.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

You see this furthest left line that curved around 245 here is the ones we take to come out on Stemmons Expressway, and this is a high knoll up here which runs where the tracks are, from standing there it sounded like it came from this general area over here.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"By the action of your brethren in the District of Columbia our Order stands pledged to the country and the world to complete the Monument, and the glory of success or the disgrace of failure will be ours alone.
— from History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick L. (Frederick Loviad) Harvey

Both call out one's sudden recollection of some facts in nature; and besides, all good sketches resemble one another as being the nearest approach to the highest finished work.
— from An Artist's Letters from Japan by John La Farge

On May 24, 1869, the boats were manned and soon were carried out of sight of the haphazard group of houses which at that time constituted this frontier settlement of Green River.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

"Fancy Pigeons," by James C. Lyell, the best authority on the subject, contains this statement: "The British Blue Rock inhabits the rocks and caves on our seacoasts, as well as precipitous inland rocks, and certainly the difference between this bird and a common blue flying tumbler is very little.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson